Interactive pdf form in InDesign repeat text field

I am working to create an interactive pdf form. The name field needs to be displayed several times. I would to create form in such a way that once the user enter the name once, the same name is used in all other places. Please help.

To have information entered once in a text field, and then have information repeat in subsequent fields, the name of each text field form needs to be identical. In screen shot, both fields are named the same

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Hi All
We have designed an interactive pdf with text fields. We need the text fields to be in a Chinese font. I understand that this cant be done in Indesign (change the inputting font to Chinese) I have moved the file over to Acrobat Pro and used the text property to amend the font to Simsun but when we try it out the font is still in English. Any ideas on how to remedy the problem??
Thank you in advance
Paul

Basically, you need to create a pdf form.
Add a text field to your form.
There you can choose which font your want the text to appear in.
The trick is, when you export from InDesign, in the "Advanced Tab" — set "Subset fonts when percentage…" to 0%, so the whole font embeds.'
I believe there's an option in Acrobat to embed the font as well, but I'm not recalling what it it.
But that will ensure the font appears correctly.
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End user have ability to change font style in text field of interactive pdf form?

Does the end user of an interactive pdf form able to change the font style, i.e.: make something bold or underline a word in a text field?
I am making a form with text fields and the end user would like the ability to make something bold or underline it.. I do not see anywhere in acrobat that allows styles to be changed.
I have created the form in Indesign > saved it as an interactive pdf and brought it into Acrobat.

Thank you for the quick response! Do you set this in Indesign before exporting or do you set this in Acrobat? I am in Acrobat 10.1.10 and when I go to properties it doesn't give me 'options' to choose from.

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Hi,
Via createPDF you would not be able to electronic sign the PDF form, you would either require Adobe Reader or purchase Adobe Acrobat to sign the PDF.
To download Adobe Reader
http://get.adobe.com/reader/
You can purchase Adobe Acrobat
http://www.adobe.com
~Pranav

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How can I create a fillable form for Adobe Reader, and then let the user export their answers AND the questions on the form to plain text?

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p=0;
console.show();
console.clear();
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Next, I tried this:
console.show();
console.clear();
for (var j = 0; j < this.getPageNthWord(j);j++)
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This only gives me the first word on page 3, the page the button is placed?
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Manish,
Well select the inputfield & check the Scripting Window in your Designer.
On its top, you will see an option something as Show: Events with Scripts.
Select the initialize event and insert the code she mentioned. Then click on + sign. This will enter your changes.
There will be language option on top as well. Select JavaScript from it.
So in the end your code should read something like this.
----- data.<YourFormName>.txtInput::initialize: - (JavaScript, client) ----------------------------------
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Interactive PDF form in Activities - Error in Content Server

Hi Experts,
We would like to display an interactive PDF form in the attachements of activities.
But the new windows shows nothing.
First we thought this was an error due to Interactive Forms, but then we found out that Content Server has obviously some problems with this generated PDF and assigns a Content Length = 0 to all these generated documents.
Please find attached some ICM traces, which shows this
content length = 0.
M ICTSYS: AddHeaderField 'Content-Type' -> 'application/pdf'
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M ICTSYS: AddHeaderField 'X-compId' -> 'Interview.pdf'
M ICTSYS: AddHeaderField 'X-Content-Length' -> '0 '
M ICTSYS: AddHeaderField 'X-compDateC' -> '2007-02-06'
M ICTSYS: AddHeaderField 'X-compTimeC' -> '07:35:17'
M ICTSYS: AddHeaderField 'X-compDateM' -> '2007-02-06'
M ICTSYS: AddHeaderField 'X-compTimeM' -> '07:35:17'
M ICTSYS: AddHeaderField 'X-compStatus' -> 'online'
M ICTSYS: AddHeaderField 'X-pVersion' -> '0046'
M ICTSYS: AddHeaderField 'X-docProt' -> 'dru'
M ICTSYS: SetData data=00000000 off=0 len=0
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Yeah, that is what I suspected as well. My question is, how force all fields to use the "private version", rather than embedding so I can correct these large files?
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Can someone help me in building an interactive PDF form with dynamic bounding box?

Hi Guys,
I need to create an interactive PDF form which will contain images, text and fields.
This is how it would be laid out:
Header Image at the top.
Below that a Text Box with a question "Choose the number of licenses" and a drop down option from 1 to 10.
Depending on what they select, I need the following to be displayed.
The following should be encapsuled by a bounding box.
If "1" is selected. "Username: <blank field> Password: <blank field>
Then a button which says "Click Here To Login To Your New Account".
The bounding box should end here.. and I have more text and images below.
This I could achieve! But now if I select "2" I would need the bounding box to automatically become taller to accommodate two rows with "Username <blank> Password <blank>
The bounding box needs to expand or contract based on the number selected in the drop down.
Would love to here your thoughts on this!
Cheers,
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If you were to look at the spec for PDF, you'd see that that is probably not possible with a PDF file.
But, I encourage you to ask this question in the Acrobat PDF Forms forum where the forms experts reside, and perhaps they could suggest an answer. JavaScript can be used, and perhaps that's the answer:
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Interactive PDF Form Speed Issues

Hello! I am looking for some info for an interactive PDF form issue.
A little info on the form:
Created in Acrobat PRO 9.4.5, Windows.
File Size: 559KB
Ultimately the file is placed up on a website, it is 3 pages with a colored background on each page and a lineart logo. It has text fields for things like name, phone etc., has some radio buttons, drop-downs, two links to other pages within the site and two links to other PDF docs. It does not have a flowable layout and is only being populated by the end user. The form has buttons on the bottom to email, print, save & clear the form.
The form tested fine from our file servers and/or local machines, the client had no issues testing when we sent them the files. We start to get into issues once the file was posted on their site and the results from testing vary significantly as I would suspect can be somewhat expected due to machine, browser, Acrobat and/or Reader variances etc. but maybe there is something we can do to improve how it functions(?)
Some end-users have come back saying that the form takes a while until they can enter text in any of the fields following their first click in one of the form fields to begin using the form. Also commented on was that the PDF pages scroll slowly as they move further down the page. We do not have any details about any browser versions, settings etc. and also did not receive this feedback directly.
Internal testing we have found some of the following accessing the form from their site (the site is a DNN site using a file handling module),
I am going to try and limit the info below as it could get very lengthy w/ all the various outcomes:
I did not have any issues on first click or scrolling in either IE8 or Firefox4, I do however have some slowness when I click the links that go to other pages on their site and also the links to the other PDF documents (I can only get this to occur when I am accessing the form through the link on their site it does not occur when I test any other way either locally from my desktop, our file server or even when I right click the file that resides on the web server and open w/ either of my browsers).
A co-worker tested every which way and could not get any slowness at all any way that she tried. Another tested and found IE on their machine to have the hangups but not Firefox. And a third had the initial click slowness (but also said he had that when he saved the file from the site to his desktop and opened it), please note browser & Reader/Acrobat versions probably vary from each person testing.
What I am feeling is that the form itself is ok just that the user variances can produce different outcomes but I just want to check and see if anyone else has had anything similar or has any suggestions to maybe "speed" the form up covering a variety of users.
Thanks very much!
Robin

When you fix it in Acrobat, what you want to do specifically is remove whatever action is present in the button and add a "Submit a form" action to the Mouse Up event. Specify that you want to submit the entire PDF and use the mailto URL you showed earlier, making sure there are no spaces.
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When clicking the Signature box in an interactive PDF form IE crashes.

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-Adobe Reader X and XI
-loaded IE in no add-ons mode
and the issue still persists. We believe there is an issue with how Internet Explorer and Adobe are communicating but don't understand why clicking inside the Signature box, IE crashes? Any thoughts? Is this related to some kind of Windows update that is impacting the ability to sign PDFs when loaded inside IE browser?

I will not be able to upload any forms as it is propietary information, but here are the steps taken to create the form using Adobe Acrobat Pro X or XI:
Open the PDF in Adobe Pro and click Tools.
In the Forms menu, click Edit.
Click Add New Field > Text Field.
Place the field on the document and edit the field name with the text [MAGICWORD]. This is a magic word that allows the signed form to be saved in the right location.
Click the All Properties link.
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Click Add New Field > Button.
Click the All Properties link.
Click the Actions tab.
Under Add an Action:
Select Trigger – Select Mouse Down.
Select Action – Select Submit a form.
Click Add.
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Under Export Format, select PDF The complete document.
Click OK.
To add a label to the button, click the Options tab.
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